{"id":172241,"date":"2025-08-01T14:47:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T18:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=172241"},"modified":"2025-07-31T19:10:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T23:10:31","slug":"weekend-open-thread-559","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=172241","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Woke-blonde-haired-blue-eyed-woman-in-advertisement-fascist.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-172242\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Woke-blonde-haired-blue-eyed-woman-in-advertisement-fascist-212x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Woke-blonde-haired-blue-eyed-woman-in-advertisement-fascist-212x300.jpeg 212w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Woke-blonde-haired-blue-eyed-woman-in-advertisement-fascist-235x333.jpeg 235w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Woke-blonde-haired-blue-eyed-woman-in-advertisement-fascist-768x1086.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Woke-blonde-haired-blue-eyed-woman-in-advertisement-fascist-1086x1536.jpeg 1086w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Woke-blonde-haired-blue-eyed-woman-in-advertisement-fascist.jpeg 1448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When people purchase a product or service, they&#8217;re purchasing more than the product or service. They&#8217;re also purchasing one or a combination of benefits. When a woman who could be on the cover of a swimsuit magazine is featured in a clothing advertisement, a fantasy is being sold with the product. Older women weighing more than the woman in the commercial would associate the clothing item with a transformation from their actual look to that of the woman in the commercial. This is but an example. An overweight LGBT type with a nose ring and colored hair isn&#8217;t going to activate that mindset.<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong> Enjoy your weekend! <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When people purchase a product or service, they&#8217;re purchasing more than the product or service. They&#8217;re &hellip; <a title=\"Weekend Open Thread\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=172241\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekend Open Thread<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}